Scenes of blood and cruelty are shocking to our ear and heart. What man has nerve to do, man has not nerve to hear.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWEThe pain of discipline is short, but the glory of the fruition is eternal.
More Harriet Beecher Stowe Quotes
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Love is very beautiful, but very, very sad.
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In the gates of eternity the black hand and the white hand hold each other with equal clasp.
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Dogs can bear more cold than human beings, but they do not like cold any better than we do; and when a dog has his choice, he will very gladly stretch himself on a rug before the fire for his afternoon nap.
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I never thought my book would turn so many people against slavery.
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Why don’t somebody wake up to the beauty of old women?
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I did not write it. God wrote it. I merely did his dictation.
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Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
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There are two classes of human beings in this world: one class seem made to give love, and the other to take it.
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Any mind that is capable of real sorrow is capable of good.
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It isn’t mere love and good-will that is needed in a sick-room; it needs knowledge and experience.
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The heart has no tears to give,–it drops only blood, bleeding itself away in silence.
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People will accept your ideas much more readily if you tell them that Benjamin Franklin said it first. Perhaps it is impossible for a person who does no good to do no harm.
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Of course, in a novel, people’s hearts break, and they die and that is the end of it; and in a story this is very convenient. But in real life we do not die when all that makes life bright dies to us.
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The person who decides what shall be the food and drink of a family, and the modes of its preparation, is the one who decides, to a greater or less extent, what shall be the health of that family.
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It’s a matter of taking the side of the weak against the strong, something the best people have always done.
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